In 1996 and early 1997, I was recalled to active duty for Operation Joint Endeavor, President Clinton’s little peccadillo in the Balkans. I ended up on the staff of the Command Surgeon, US Army Europe, and was assigned as one of the SURG reps in the CINC’s war room. We were hammered daily with security lectures; you had to card in and out, and the computers in the war room were air-gapped, even in those years when the internet was still in its infancy. The only messages that could go in or out electronically were through the Army’s secure teletype system. We were also lectured daily on the consequences of revealing classified information.
So it’s a little baffling to see a Navy Chief Petty Officer (CPO) installing an unauthorized Starlink dish on a warship.
A U.S. Navy official was relieved of her duties and demoted, after having an unauthorized Starlink High Performance satellite…
